I agree...God..what is wrong with you people..?? Can't you give it a rest for one day?

It is a POLITICAL FORUM! What don't you get about that?

The people you usually support are the ones making stupid political comments. Why don't you remember that when the time comes to vote for them.

You won't.

A new low for Newtster. And that is saying a lot....

What can I expect from you losers but a lot of denial and ignorance? You live in your little Kumbayah coccoons and have no ability to see the world as others might. Not that you have to agree with it but at least have the ability to understand how others see what is going on.

LIterally, you are idiots. You come on to a political forum, put up political content and then tell me I am being political about a disaster.

You are all happy when people conform to your drivel, but when you are called on your hypocrisy you turn into mongoloid idiots with no ability to comprehend another point of view.

I do not know who it was who said this but I believe it has some truth. When you attempt to argue with idiots you have to become one. No, here it is:

"Never argue with a fool; onlookers may not be able to tell the difference."

I am siging off on this as you libruls are so stupid and introspective there is no point in continuing the "discussion".

God forgive me for wasting my time here when I could be doing something useful.

So, for the second time in about a week I'm at cross purposes with fellow conservatives. The request is that we stand together, at least in this one discussion, to contemplate and commemorate a tragedy. I think this is a reasonable request.

Honestly, there's a time and a place to discuss the politics of the matter. Start as many discussions as necessary to air that stuff out but leave this one politics free.

So, for the second time in about a week I'm at cross purposes with fellow conservatives. The request is that we stand together, at least in this one discussion, to contemplate and commemorate a tragedy. I think this is a reasonable request.

Honestly, there's a time and a place to discuss the politics of the matter. Start as many discussions as necessary to air that stuff out but leave this one politics free.

So, for the second time in about a week I'm at cross purposes with fellow conservatives. The request is that we stand together, at least in this one discussion, to contemplate and commemorate a tragedy. I think this is a reasonable request.

Honestly, there's a time and a place to discuss the politics of the matter. Start as many discussions as necessary to air that stuff out but leave this one politics free.

I agree...God..what is wrong with you people..?? Can't you give it a rest for one day?

It is a POLITICAL FORUM! What don't you get about that?

The people you usually support are the ones making stupid political comments. Why don't you remember that when the time comes to vote for them.

You won't.

A new low for Newtster. And that is saying a lot....

What can I expect from you losers but a lot of denial and ignorance? You live in your little Kumbayah coccoons and have no ability to see the world as others might. Not that you have to agree with it but at least have the ability to understand how others see what is going on.

LIterally, you are idiots. You come on to a political forum, put up political content and then tell me I am being political about a disaster.

You are all happy when people conform to your drivel, but when you are called on your hypocrisy you turn into mongoloid idiots with no ability to comprehend another point of view.

I do not know who it was who said this but I believe it has some truth. When you attempt to argue with idiots you have to become one. No, here it is:

"Never argue with a fool; onlookers may not be able to tell the difference."

I am siging off on this as you libruls are so stupid and introspective there is no point in continuing the "discussion".

God forgive me for wasting my time here when I could be doing something useful.

Respectfully.

Fck you

Greg...I hope your daughter is doing better. I think about you guys every time I get off the phone with my friend Kathy who was also there. She is having a tough time. Today..I had lunch with an MBTA officer from Woburn who knows the officer who was shot and currently fighting for his life. He's been on duty almost non stop for days. I can tell you he looks haunted...as does my friend..as does..no doubt anyone who was there that day.

So, for the second time in about a week I'm at cross purposes with fellow conservatives. The request is that we stand together, at least in this one discussion, to contemplate and commemorate a tragedy. I think this is a reasonable request.

Honestly, there's a time and a place to discuss the politics of the matter. Start as many discussions as necessary to air that stuff out but leave this one politics free.

Do you not realize the politcal opposition started puking politics within a few hours of the event?

Is pointing out that behavior of political expliotation somehow worse than the behavior itself?

Watch how they behave as the events roll out.

Watch yourself. Watch yourself. You cannot control the actions of others you have absolute control of your own. Show some class. Be a leader. Or be an Idiot Ideologue.

So, for the second time in about a week I'm at cross purposes with fellow conservatives. The request is that we stand together, at least in this one discussion, to contemplate and commemorate a tragedy. I think this is a reasonable request.

Honestly, there's a time and a place to discuss the politics of the matter. Start as many discussions as necessary to air that stuff out but leave this one politics free.

Very well said SB..! As we have both said we generally tend to disagree on political views..but one of the great things about the USA in my opinion..is our ability to come together in the face of adversity..our abilty to be united. This is something that countries who live and die by extremist views simply can't understand. It's what makes us stand out...the idea that a couple of losers who bomb a national event don't get to define who we are. Instead of inspiring fear and hate..they inspire love, compassion and light. I am sure this is the opposite of what they hoped to accomplish.

Do you not realize the politcal opposition started puking politics within a few hours of the event?

Yes, I know, but they didn't start doing it here. No one knew who the perpetrators were when this discussion started and I didn't see any of the usual bomb-throwing in this forum, not even from those that I might have guessed would have.

What I saw was a sincere request to stand together in opposition to mindless hateful violence and, in this, I am happy to participate.

Remarkably, all of the more than 180 people injured in the Boston Marathon blasts one week ago who made it to a hospital alive now seem likely to survive, doctors say.

That includes several people who arrived with legs attached by just a little skin, a 3-year-old boy with a head wound and bleeding on the brain, and a little girl riddled with nails. Even a transit system police officer whose heart had stopped and was close to bleeding to death after a shootout with the suspects now appears headed for recovery.

"All I feel is joy," said Dr. George Velmahos, chief of trauma surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, referring to his hospital's 31 blast patients. "Whoever came in alive, stayed alive."

Yes, isn't it a shame that Barney Frank and David Axlerod couldn't keep their mouths shut for even half a day before politicizing the whole thing?

And that's why I stayed away. I shouldn't have opened this thread.

I don't know...I prefer to observe how nice it is that all of the others on this thread were able to put aside their political differences..at least for a moment. There will always be the vocal minority. I try not to give them too much power over my thoughts, feelings or actions.